COMPOSER

Marin Marais

1656 - 1728

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Marin Marais (French: [maʁɛ̃ maʁɛ]; 31 May 1656, in Paris – 15 August 1728, in Paris) was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for six months. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marin Marais has received more than 328,923 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Marin Marais is the 139th most popular composer (up from 158th in 2019), the 654th most popular biography from France (up from 717th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Composer.

Marin Marais is most famous for his compositions for the viola da gamba.

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  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Marin Marais ranks 139 out of 1,451. Before him are Johannes Ockeghem, Giovanni Gabrieli, César Cui, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Pérotin, and Anton Rubinstein. After him are Tomás Luis de Victoria, Édouard Lalo, George Enescu, Jacob Obrecht, Paul Dukas, and Kurt Weill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1656, Marin Marais ranks 2. Before him is Edmond Halley. After him are Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Nicolas de Largillière, Guillaume Dubois, Robert de Cotte, Kateri Tekakwitha, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Guru Har Krishan. Among people deceased in 1728, Marin Marais ranks 2. Before him is Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia. After him are Anne Marie d'Orléans, Christian Thomasius, Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp, Agostino Steffani, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Maria Aurora von Königsmarck, William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marin Marais ranks 654 out of 6,770. Before him are Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Ansgar (801), Georges Perec (1936), Ausonius (310), Marcel Lefebvre (1905), and Pérotin (1160). After him are Simone Veil (1927), Paul Mauriat (1925), Marie Tussaud (1761), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), and Raoul Dufy (1877).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Marin Marais ranks 23. Before him are Francis Poulenc (1899), Adolphe Adam (1803), Arthur Honegger (1892), Daniel Auber (1782), Maurice Jarre (1924), and Pérotin (1160). After him are Édouard Lalo (1823), Paul Dukas (1865), Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760), Darius Milhaud (1892), Pierre Boulez (1925), and Michel Legrand (1932).

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